Meet Your Board

Matthew C. Moschella National President

Matthew C. Moschella is a partner at Sherin and Lodgen LLP in Boston, Mass. where he represents clients in all types of civil litigation. He is also a member of the firm’s Employment Law and Professional Liability Groups. Mr. Moschella counsels clients in various industries on employment risk management issues, including preventing discrimination claims, hiring and termination issues, employment contracts, employee handbooks, non-compete, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure agreements.

Mr. Moschella graduated from Boston College, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, and Northeastern University School of Law. After law school, he served as a law clerk to Hon. Judith Gail Dein, U.S. magistrate judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. During law school, he interned with a district judge at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the civil division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, two Boston civil litigation firms, and the Massachusetts Department of Social Services’ legal department.

Mr. Moschella has been active in the FBA since 2004. He has been a board member of the Younger Lawyers Division for several years and has recently served as chair. He is also the co-chair of the FBA’s Supreme Court Admissions Program, which is coordinated by the YLD. He is also active in the Massachusetts Chapter. He has been a member of its Executive Council and an officer for several years.

Jonathan O. Hafen National President-Elect

Jonathan Hafen is widely regarded as one of Utah’s top lawyers. As a trial lawyer, Mr. Hafen handles a wide variety of litigation, including cases in the areas of securities and investment law, employment law, regulatory enforcement defense, disputes over the ownership and control of businesses, class actions, and legal malpractice defense. Mr. Hafen also serves as legal counsel to numerous small, midsize, and multinational companies, utilizing the significant resources available at his law firm, Parr Brown Gee & Loveless, to address the broad spectrum of legal challenges routinely confronting business leaders. Most recently, he has devoted a significant portion of his time serving as the court-appointed Receiver in a $200 million precious metals ponzi scheme.

Following a nomination, research, and blue-ribbon review process, Mr. Hafen was named one of the “Top 10” Lawyers in the Mountain States (Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming) by Super Lawyers. Mr. Hafen also has been repeatedly recognized as a top commercial litigator by Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA – America’s Leading Business Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, and Utah Business magazine as one of Utah’s Legal Elite. Best Lawyers named Mr. Hafen “Lawyer of the Year” in Employment Law for Individuals.

Prior to joining his current firm, Mr. Hafen graduated summa cum laude from BYU in 1988 and magna cum laude from BYU Law School in 1991. He clerked for Monroe McKay, chief judge of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked at one of the nation’s most prestigious law firms, Sidley & Austin (Chicago).

Mr. Hafen is heavily involved in work for charitable organizations. He has served for many years as board chair of Tuacahn Center for the Arts. Tuacahn typically hosts over 300,000 patrons each year and has a positive economic impact on Washington County, Utah, of over $100 million. He supports numerous professional organizations and has held leadership positions with the FBA, the Utah State Bar, the BYU Alumni Association, the BYU Law School Alumni Association, and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society.

Mr. Hafen supports his legal community through a wide variety of service, including serving for a number of years as chair of the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure, as chair of the Utah State Bar CLE Advisory Committee, and as an organizer of dozens of CLE conferences and presentations. In recognizing his mentoring of many other lawyers, the Utah State Bar awarded Mr. Hafen the inaugural Charlotte Miller Mentoring Award. He recently completed a term serving as the FBA’s general counsel (pro bono).

Mr. Hafen is also active in Utah’s business community, having served for many years on the Salt Lake Chamber’s Board of Governors, where he is currently the co-chair of the Chamber’s Public Policy Committee. He also serves on the boards of Utah’s Women’s Leadership Institute and the Utah Center for Legal Inclusion.

Mr. Hafen has published and lectured widely on a variety of topics, including trial skills, investment fraud, antitrust law, professionalism and civility, legal ethics, employment law, securities law compliance, and litigation strategy.

Glen R. McMurry National Treasurer

Glen McMurry is a partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP in its Dayton, Ohio, office. He is a member of the firm’s litigation practice group. He has over 15 years of experience serving diverse corporations and individuals across the country resolving a wide variety of issues, including complex contractual disputes and compliance with local, state, and federal laws. Mr. McMurry also focuses his practice on employment issues, construction claims, insurance claims/ defense, and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. McMurry has been an active participant in the FBA for over a decade and served as the Dayton, Ohio Chapter president for three years (2010-2012). Since then, he has served in many capacities, including chairing the Law Student Division in 2021, chairing the Younger Lawyers Division in 2016, serving on Government Relations Committee and the Editorial Board, and serving as one of the Sixth Circuit vice-presidents. Recently, he was appointed to steer a national task force aimed at increasing courtroom advocacy opportunities for younger lawyers across the country.

Mr. McMurry resides in Tipp City, Ohio, with his wife, Angela, and their three children.

Hon. Alison S. Bachus Director

Hon. Alison S. Bachus has served the FBA in a variety of capacities, including on the National Board of Directors from 2018 to 2020. She has also served on the National Constitution, Bylaws, Rules and Resolution Committee; Government Relations Committee; Budget and Finance Committee; Community Service and Outreach Committee; Membership Committee; Nominations and Elections Committee; Chapter Activity Awards Committee; and Special Committee on Women in the Law. In FY 2018, she chaired the Nominations and Elections Task Force, which examined the FBA’s elections procedures. She then served on the National Governance Task Force in FY 2019. From 2012 to 2017, she served as vice president for the Ninth Circuit. Judge Bachus was chair of the CVPs for FY 2017. Prior to her election as a CVP, she served as president of the Phoenix Chapter, where she was a member of the board from 2007 to 2020. She is also proud to be a Fellow of the FBA Foundation.

From 2011 to 2016, Judge Bachus presented at every FBA national leadership training program and co-chaired the program in 2016. She drafted the national sample membership plan, which is used as a model for chapters across the country for membership best practices, as well as the national governing document changes recently adopted by the National Council. At the section level, she has been a member of the Federal Litigation Section and has served on its board. She was a speaker at the FBA’s national Women in the Law Conference in Washington, D.C., in 2015.

Prior to her appointment to the Arizona state bench in 2015, Judge Bachus served as an assistant U.S. attorney for many years and as in-house counsel for the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Arizona. She received various awards during her career as a federal litigator, including Cooperative Law Enforcement and Victims’ Rights awards. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, she served as a law clerk for then-Chief U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee.

Judge Bachus currently serves on the board of the Law College Association of the University of Arizona’s Rogers College of Law, and she was a faculty member of Arizona’s Bar Leadership Institute, working on bench/bar relations between the federal and state bars, for many years. She is a member of the Arizona Women Lawyers Association and the National Association of Women Judges. Prior to joining the bench, she served as a lawyer-representative for the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference and on the Arizona State Bar’s Committee on Minorities and Women in the Law. Outside of legal organizations, Judge Bachus volunteers with the Girl Scouts in Arizona.

Ernest T. Bartol Director

Ernest T. Bartol received a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law in 1970. Admitted to the New York Bar in 1971, Mr. Bartol was a Founding Charter Member of the FBA Eastern District of New York Chapter, where he served as president from 2011-2013. He was elected as an FBA circuit vice president from 20142020, during which he served as secretary (2016-2017) , vice chair (2017-2018), and chair (2018-2019). Mr. Bartol has also served as a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, Estates and Trusts Law Committee since 1977, the Professional Ethics Committee from 1979-2018, and the New York State Bar Association Estates and Trusts Law Committee since 1973. Mr. Bartol, who has a B.S. in accounting from Fordham University, has concentrated in all phases of Estates, Wills and Trusts and commercial litigation since leaving the employ of a major accounting firm in 1971. On the estate-planning side, he has been engaged in all phases of estate asset protection by drafting, inter alia, (1) wills with shelter trusts and provisions, (2) irrevocable and revocable trusts, including life insurance trusts and Medicaid asset protection trusts, (3) qualified personal residence trusts, (4) family limited partnerships and limited liability companies, (5) private annuities, (6) GRATS, GRITS, and GRUTS, and (7) other planning devices for use by individuals, shareholders of family, and closely held businesses and partners of family and closely held businesses. On the estate-litigation side, he has been engaged in all types of proceedings in the surrogates courts located in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, and upstate counties, including contested probate proceedings, contested accounting proceedings, and discovery proceedings, among others. Mr. Bartol has also handled many commercial trials in the New York State Supreme Courts and the U.S. District Courts in the Eastern and Southern Districts. A member of the New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Law Committee, wherein he frequently lectures on estate-related topics, Mr. Bartol also has

been a member of the Federal Bar Council, which operates within the Second Circuit, and has become a member in the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation and the New York State Bar Association. He is a member of various Who’s Who registers, including Who’s Who in American Law, Super Lawyers since 2013, and he was honored with the Marquis Who’s Who Humanitarian Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. In 2003 Mr. Bartol became a member of the Civil Rules Committee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and in August 2008, he became a member of the Magistrate Selection Committee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. In March 2008 he became a member of the State of New York Committee on Character and Fitness for the Second, Tenth, and Eleventh Judicial Districts. In June 2008, he became a member of the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission for the Tenth Judicial District of the New York State Supreme Court. In 2004, he became the presiding trustee of the Board of Directors of United Cerebral Palsy of Nassau County, a charity for whom he has donated substantial time for 40+ years. Mr. Bartol is admitted to practice before all the courts of the state of New York, several U.S. district courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Tax Court.

Bonnie S. Greenberg Director

Bonnie S. Greenberg is an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Maryland, where she has worked since 1991, prosecuting a wide range of cases, such as violent crimes, child exploitation, public corruption, national and international narcotics organizations, and federal racketeering crimes.

Currently, Ms. Greenberg is on temporary assignment to the Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance & Training. As such, she coordinates programming for counterterrorism resident legal advisors throughout the world. Ms. Greenberg has provided guidance on best learning practices in locations such as Croatia, North Macedonia, Qatar, Malaysia, and Ghana.

Ms. Greenberg has enjoyed teaching throughout her career and has instructed at the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Education since 1999. She was selected as assistant director for the Office of Legal Education from January 2017 to August 2018 and January 2011 to September 2012. Further, she served as training coordinator for the Office of Legal Education from July 2019 to December 2021, and prior to that was the acting chief learning officer from August 2018 to July 2019. Last, but certainly not least, Ms. Greenberg has been an adjunct professor at various law schools since 2006. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, where she has taught Trial Advocacy and Applied Evidence since 2019.

Ms. Greenberg has diligently served the Maryland Chapter of the FBA in a variety of capacities, most notably as chapter president (2004) and chapter delegate (since 2014). Before being elected to the FBA’s Board of Directors, she was chair of the FBA’s Professional Development Committee and served on several FBA committees, such as the convention committee and the audit committee.

Anna W. Howard Director

Anna W. Howard, who joined the University of Georgia School of Law in 2019, teaches legal writing courses, serves as the school’s judicial liaison, and volunteers with the Appellate Litigation Clinic. In the clinic, Ms. Howard supervises students as they represent indigent clients before the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Georgia, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Previously, Ms. Howard was an associate with Butler Wooten & Peak, where she litigated False Claims Act qui tam, product liability, and catastrophic personal injury cases. She also served as a career law clerk for Judge Leigh Martin May and a term law clerk for Judge Richard W. Story, both of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Outside of her position as a director, Ms. Howard also currently serves as a member of the National Board of Directors for the FBA’s Younger Lawyers Division. She has previously served as YLD chair, chair-elect, treasurer, and secretary, and for many years, she chaired the YLD Younger Federal Lawyer Awards and Membership Committees. She also currently serves as president-elect of the FBA Atlanta Chapter and formerly served as the Atlanta Chapter’s YLD chair.

Joseph S. Leventhal Director

Joe Leventhal is the office managing partner of Dinsmore & Shohl’s San Diego office. As a litigator, Mr. Leventhal represents clients across all industries in varying legal disputes. He has led jury trial teams in both state and federal court and multiple arbitrations, ranging from the protection of the First Amendment to class actions, intellectual property infringement to employment claims, and other complex business matters.

Mr. Leventhal obtained his law degree with honors from the Georgetown University Law Center while working on Capitol Hill as a legislative aide handling issues such as health care and education. After law school, he served as an attorney in the White House as deputy assistant to the vice president. As part of the vice president’s senior staff, at the age of 25, Mr. Leventhal was then the youngest deputy assistant to the vice president.

Mr. Leventhal’s experience and involvement with the FBA is significant. He served as president of the San Diego Chapter in 2015. Under his leadership, the chapter achieved the following: (1) increased membership by 29 percent, fundraising by 1,429 percent, and social media engagement by over 134 percent; (2) launched a new email marketing platform and two first-ever community service events; (3) held a record-breaking 22 CLE events, including the chapter’s first-ever Women in the Law Conference (approximately 150 attendees); first annual all-day CLE session on competence, ethics, and elimination of bias; and first-ever law student moot court competition; and (4) created a government relations liaison and held its first-ever government relations event with Judiciary Committee member Rep. Darrell Issa. The chapter ended the year with a record-high

bank account balance, enabling it to continue to innovate and increase its relevancy to members. Mr. Leventhal currently serves as the vice president of the San Diego Federal Bar Foundation.

In addition to the National Board of Directors, Mr. Leventhal serves on the Budget and Finance Committee, the Task Force to Study Sections and Divisions, and the Annual Meeting and Convention Task Force Charge. He is a past Ninth Circuit vice president. Mr. Leventhal previously served on the Community Service Committee, the Government Relations Committee, the SOLACE Committee, the Sarah T. Hughes Civil Rights Award Committee (for two years, including serving as chair of the committee), and the Nominations and Elections Committee. He was on the board of the YLD and previously served as the chair of the Chapter Activity Fund Committee and as chair of the National Convention Planning Committee for the FBA’s 2012 Convention in San Diego. He also served as a San Diego Chapter Delegate to the FBA’s Annual Meeting and Midyear Meeting numerous times. Mr. Leventhal is a Life Fellow of the Foundation of the FBA, a sustaining member of the association, and the 2021 recipient of the Elaine R. “Boots” Fisher Award for community, public, and charitable service.

At the request of the chief judge, Mr. Leventhal chaired the Southern District of California’s 50th Anniversary Committee, which included several events throughout 2016. He previously co-chaired the Ninth Circuit Lawyer Representatives for the Southern District of California and chaired the Southern District of California’s Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel five times.

Outside of his volunteer work in the legal community, Mr. Leventhal serves on the North San Diego Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors, the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce’s public policy committee, the Board of Directors of St. Vincent de Paul’s Village, the Advisory Board for the North County Food Bank, and the San Diego Steering Committee for Just the Beginning, and he is a member of the Rancho Bernardo Rotary. He previously served as a commissioner on the City of San Diego Ethics Commission and as a member of the Board of Directors of Kids Included Together, a nonprofit focused on training childcare providers on how to include children with disabilities instead of simply accommodating such children. Adine S. Momoh is an equity partner and trial attorney specializing in complex business and commercial litigation, securities litigation, estates and trusts litigation, and creditors’ rights and bankruptcy in the Minneapolis office of the law firm of Stinson LLP. She chairs the firm’s national Estates and Trusts Litigation Practice Group. Ms. Momoh received her B.A. in business administration-legal studies in business, psychology, and pre-law, summa cum laude, from the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business. She received law degrees from Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M. in Tax (Securities and Financial Regulation, concentration), with highest distinction, and William Mitchell College of Law, J.D., magna cum laude. After law school, she clerked for Hon. Jeanne J. Graham of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.

Ms. Momoh has been an active member of the FBA since 2011, after having joined as a law student member in 2007. She currently serves as an at-large director on the National Board of Directors. She is a former Eighth Circuit vice president and served as chair of the FBA’s Younger Lawyers Division during the FBA’s Centennial, where, under her leadership, the division initiated the annual Step Up Pro Bono Challenge, which encourages all FBA members to volunteer at least 50 hours of pro bono service each year for work addressing systemic racism, socioeconomic injustice, and access to justice. Having been elected to the YLD Board of Directors in 2011, Ms. Momoh has served on practically all of the YLD’s committees. For five years, she served as a director of the YLD’s Thurgood Marshall Memorial Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C., one of the most prestigious moot court competitions in the country. She served as the chair of the Robyn J. Spalter Outstanding Achievement Award Committee and was one of the award’s founders. She also assisted the YLD with its Summer Law Clerk Program and U.S. Supreme Court Admissions Ceremony, among many other committees and FBA initiatives. A nationally recognized and award-winning attorney, Ms. Momoh has received national FBA awards for her work, including the FBA’s Appreciation of Leadership Award in 2017.

With respect to her involvement with the FBA on the national level, in addition to chairing the YLD and serving as an Eighth Circuit vice president, Ms. Momoh previously served as chair of the FBA’s Chapter Activity Fund Committee and has served as a member on various FBA committees and task forces, including the FBA’s 100th Anniversary Planning Committee, the Rising Professionals Symposium Planning Committee, the Audit Committee, the Membership Committee, the Nominations and Elections Committee, the Shaw Younger Lawyers Public Service Award and Grant Committee, and the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. With respect to her involvement with the FBA on the local level, Ms. Momoh is a member of the FBA Minnesota Chapter’s Board of Directors and was previously vice president of special events, vice president of membership, co-chair of the chapter’s Law School Outreach Committee, and a member of the chapter’s Communications Committee, for which she has written several articles for the chapter’s nationally recognized and award-winning Bar Talk publication. She currently serves as the strategic initiatives coordinator.

Aside from her work with the FBA, Ms. Momoh has been active with other bar associations and nonprofits, including serving on the boards of the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers and the Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation, and as co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Appeals Subcommittee of the Bankruptcy Committee.

Nancy Morisseau Director

Nancy Morisseau works as an in-house counsel for an international utilities and gas company. She has nearly 20 years of experience and practices in labor and employment. She clerked for Hon. George B. Daniels of the Southern District of New York and was associated with a number of Wall Street law firms and government agencies. She is a former president of the FBA’s Southern District of New York Chapter and a former founding board member of the Haitian American Lawyers Association of New York, Inc. She is a magna cum laude graduate of

Syracuse University, where she obtained a B.A. in public relations & African American studies. She has an M.S. from the London School of Economics & Political Science, where she did her graduate thesis on Haitian market women. At Cornell Law School, where she obtained her J.D., she was an article editor on the Cornell Law Review.

Michelle M. Pettit Director

Michelle M. Pettit is an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of California, where she has worked in the Criminal Division since 2007, prosecuting a wide range of cases, such as drug trafficking, immigration offenses, human smuggling, child exploitation, sexual assaults, cybercrimes, domestic and international terrorism, and homicide. She was the deputy chief of intake, coordinating the initial processing of all new reactive cases and training new prosecutors in one of the nation’s busiest border districts, and she recently transferred to the Major Frauds Section.

Ms. Pettit, who received a B.S. with distinction from the United States Naval Academy, began her career in 1994 as a surface warfare officer in the Navy. She held multiple leadership positions in the Engineering, Combat Systems, and Operational Departments and completed two Persian Gulf deployments on Navy destroyers. She was selected for the Law Education Program in 1998 and received a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2001, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served as a managing editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. Subsequently, she entered the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps and served six additional years on active duty, advising Navy officials on personnel and military justice matters and serving as the senior supervising prosecutor for the entire Southwest region. In 2007, she transferred to the Navy Reserves when she joined the Department of Justice. As a Navy Reservist, she has been assigned as a trial counsel, an appellate defense counsel, a Naval Justice School instructor, an executive officer, a preliminary hearing officer, an appellate judge on the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, the chief reserve trial judge and commanding officer of the Navy Reserve Trial Judiciary, and the commanding officer of the Navy Reserve Region Legal Service Office in Japan. Currently, Ms. Pettit is on active duty as the circuit military judge for the Navy-Marine Corps Trial Judiciary, Southwest Judicial Circuit.

Ms. Pettit has diligently served the San Diego Chapter of the FBA in a variety of capacities, including as committee member, secretary, president, and now as an Advisory Board member. In addition to her FBA service, she has been a member of the Ninth Circuit Conference Executive Committee and a lawyer representative for the Southern District of California, where she has coordinated and presented eight programs in support of the federal judiciary. She is currently the president of the Enright Inn of Court, and she is an active member of the San Diego County Bar Association, the Lawyers Club of San Diego, the National Association of Women Judges, and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. She spends countless hours volunteering for the district court’s outreach programs and is a committee member and judge for the annual Ninth Circuit Civics Contest. She frequently conducts law enforcement training and provides lectures on national security and military justice topics.

Rachel V. Rose Director

Rachel V. Rose, J.D., MBA advises and represents clients on healthcare, cybersecurity, securities, and qui tam compliance, transactional, litigation, and government enforcement matters. Ms. Rose is also an affiliated member with the Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, where she teaches bioethics. She is often quoted as an expert. Ms. Rose is licensed in Texas and is a Fellow of the FBA. Currently, she serves as a director on the FBA’s National Board of Directors, is a member of and the immediate past chair of the FBA’s Government Relations Committee, is an Advisory Board member of the FBA’s Qui Tam Section, and is the co-editor of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Enterprise Risk Management Handbook for Healthcare Entities (2nd Edition), as well as a co-author of the ABA’s books The ABCs of ACOs and What Are International HIPAA Considerations? She is extensively published and presents on a variety of matters related to her practice. Ms. Rose has been named consecutively to the Texas Bar College, the National Women Trial Lawyers Association’s Top 25, Houstonia Magazine’s Top Lawyers (healthcare), and the National Trial Lawyers Association’s Top 100, as well as 1st Healthcare Compliance’s 2019 Top Presenter.

Kelly T. Scalise Director

Kelly T. Scalise has been a member of the FBA for over 18 years and has served in a leadership role for all those years. After joining the FBA in November 2001, Ms. Scalise became a board member of the Younger Lawyers Division of the New Orleans Chapter. She entered the leadership ladder and became chair of the YLD in 2005, overseeing the re-establishment of the YLD following Hurricane Katrina. While serving on the YLD Board of Directors, she organized a CLE that brought in over 150 new members; participated in an event for high school students, during which they visited oral arguments at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana; organized a program for law school students at the Eastern District, which also increased membership by over 100 members; and participated in public service projects, including a refurbishment of a police station after Hurricane Katrina.

In 2006, Ms. Scalise became a board member of the New Orleans Chapter. She served on multiple committees, including CLE committees, policy committees, and planning committees. She served as the national liaison for the New Orleans Chapter from 2009 to 2011. In 2011, she was selected to serve as membership chair, thus entering the leadership ladder. While president-elect in 2015-2016, the New Orleans Chapter was awarded Chapter of the Year. As chapter president, she established eight practice area committees that provide substance and opportunities for engaging our members; conducted a gift card drive for the legal community affected by devastating floods in Louisiana; welcomed nearly 100 new law-

yers as members; coordinated with national sections on CLE programming; and oversaw at least one CLE or special event per month.

In 2007, Ms. Scalise also became a member of the YLD National Board of Directors, joining the Thurgood Marshall Memorial Moot Court Competition Committee and advancing to co-director. She chaired a CLE committee that presented the first YLD CLE program at the Annual Convention in San Diego. From 2012 to 2013, she served as chair of the YLD, co-chairing the largest moot court completion. She received the 2013 Division Chair Award.

In 2013, Ms. Scalise co-founded the Admiralty Law Section with Howard McPherson and served as its chair for a two-year term. As chair, she established a quarterly newsletter, organized three seminars, and steadily recruited members. She was a member of the Board of Directors and The Federal Lawyer Editorial Board and is past co-chair of the Law Student Division Task Force and past member of the Sections and Division Council. She is a Fellow of the FBA Foundation.

Ms. Scalise is a shareholder at Liskow & Lewis, practicing in maritime, oilfield, and indemnity issues as well as environmental and tort litigation. She has represented clients both as plaintiffs and defendants and tried cases in federal and state court. She serves on her firm’s Diversity Committee and is a frequent presenter on admiralty and insurance issues. She was nominated to “Top Lawyers” by New Orleans Magazine, Louisiana Super Lawyers, and Best Lawyers in America. She also received the 2015 FBA President’s Award.

Ms. Scalise is a member of the New Orleans Bar Association, having chaired several committees; the Judge John C. Boutall American Inn of Court; the Women’s Energy Network; and the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association, and she is a Fellow of the Louisiana Law Foundation and the American Bar Foundation. She is a member of the ABA Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee. She also volunteers at her children’s school, St. Catherine of Siena. Mike Vitale is partner at the law firm of Baker & Hostetler LLP, where he has practiced law since 2007. His practice includes civil, construction, and complex business litigation across the Southeast United States, where he has trial experience at both the federal and state level. Mr. Vitale has been recognized for his accomplishments as an attorney by Martindale-Hubbell, The Legal 500 (U.S.), Florida Super Lawyers, and Florida Trend magazine. He is admitted to practice as a member of the Florida Bar as well as the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

A dedicated servant to the FBA, Mike has been a member for almost 15 years and has held leadership roles both at the national level and locally. Last year, in addition to serving as a director, Mr. Vitale was a member of the FBA’s Governance Task Force and this year serves on the FBA Conferences Task Force and Audit Committee. Mr. Vitale previously served as a vice president for the Eleventh Circuit for six years, chairing the group during the 2019-2020 year. He received the award for Outstanding Circuit Leader for 2016-2017. During his time as a circuit VP, Mr. Vitale assisted the 15 local chapters in the Eleventh Circuit with their professional development and helped to form the FBA’s Southern District of Georgia Chapter.

Mr. Vitale has also served on the Membership Committee; the Chapter Activity Fund Committee; the Nominations and Elections Committee; the Constitution, Bylaws, Rules, & Resolutions Committee; and the FBA Mentorship Committee, among others. Locally, he previously served as the president of the Orlando Chapter during the 2012-2013 term and as the national delegate for Orlando for the 2013-2014 term. He is also a proud lifetime Fellow of the Foundation of the FBA and a member of the Federal Litigation and Government Contracting sections.

Mr. Vitale has a B.A. from Florida State University and earned his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2005. Prior to entering private practice, he was a judicial law clerk for then-Chief Judge Patricia C. Fawsett of the Middle District of Florida. See https://www.bakerlaw.com/ MichaelSVitale for his complete biography.